Reading Takes You Everywhere| Summer 2018 Adults Are People, Too! Adult Summer Reading 2018 Morgan Rose Pershing Community Library Manager – Avalon Library County of Los Angeles Public Library November 3, 2017 Reading Takes You Everywhere| Summer 2018

Why? Kids don’t vote. Parents do. Parents modelling good behavior: Readers make readers Promote literacy and literacy services Active brains + social participation = Happy Adults! And the most important reason… Reading Takes You Everywhere | Summer 2018 November 3, 2017

Who? Know your audience Think beyond the usual suspects Engage the whole spectrum Don’t forget City/County employees Reading Takes You Everywhere | Summer 2018 November 3, 2017

What? Virtually Anything! Volunteer Vacations: http://content.sierraclub.org/outings/volunteer-vacations Hostelling International USA: https://www.hiusa.org/ Summer Sci-Fi Reading Club Armchair Travel Book Talk International Food Fair Cookbooks Around The World Book Talk (Better yet, get the author!) Trivia Night – Geography Wines Of The World Reading Takes You Everywhere | Summer 2018 November 3, 2017

When & How Coordinate with Youth Services and any other big community events Check bus/dial-a-ride schedules Evening programs may be harder for seniors Consider weekend, after-hours, and off site programs Put quarter sheets in all holds, new books, etc. announcing ASRP Get Youth Services to sell to parents Work with all levels of staff – get the Circ desk to sign up adults! Make it a contest. Reading Takes You Everywhere | Summer 2018 November 3, 2017

Community Library Manager, Avalon Library Contact: Morgan Rose Pershing Community Library Manager, Avalon Library County of Los Angeles Public Library System mpershing@library.lacounty.gov Summer @ Your Library is a project of the California Library Association, supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. Reading Takes You Everywhere | Summer 2018 June 22, 2012